Sciency Optimist's video: What Happened How Islam Lost Its Science

While Europe was suffering through it's "Dark Ages" it was erupting into its "Golden Age" of Islamic math and science. Had Newton, Einstein, Steven Hawking or Neil De Grasse Tyson been alive back then, they'd have been in Baghdad. Chicago science comedian Aaron Freeman and Sociology professor Ahmad note that the Islamic mathematician Muhammad ibn Musa al-Khwarizmi invented algebra and algorithms. Two-thirds of the stars that have names have Arabic ones. Baghdad's "House of Wisdom" collected and translated Greek philosophers, Chinese poets, Roman orations, Hebrew biblical commentaries and virtually every other variety of sagacity available. Though the sun ultimately set on the Abbasid Caliphate, algebra continues to challenge and enhance our calculations, while algorithms increasingly aid/manipulate our digital lives. The contribution of Al-Khwarizmi to Mathematics and Geography - https://go.shr.lc/2TvPQXZ Jondi Shapour, the World's Oldest University - Iran Review - https://go.shr.lc/2CSas7g https://go.shr.lc/2Tvga4E Neil deGrasse Tyson: George Bush and Star Names - https://go.shr.lc/2TtGf3S The Incoherence of the Philosophers - https://go.shr.lc/2TtV7iI The Abbasids' House of Wisdom Baghdad - https://go.shr.lc/2CUEc3v No Caliph for 3 years: when the Mongols sacked Abbasid Baghdad - https://go.shr.lc/2CUk41k Iran 1979: Legacy of a Revolution | Featured Documentary - https://go.shr.lc/2TANYgW